[Intel-wired-lan] [net-next S5 02/15] i40evf: Allow for an abundance of vectors

Young, James M james.m.young at intel.com
Thu Jun 18 00:22:03 UTC 2015


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at lists.osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Catherine Sullivan
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 11:57 AM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [net-next S5 02/15] i40evf: Allow for an abundance
> of vectors
> 
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> 
> The driver currently only maps TX and RX queues to a single MSI-X vector per
> queue pair if there are exactly enough vectors for this.
> Unfortunately, if we have too many vectors it will fail and allocate queues to
> vectors in a suboptimal manner. Change the condition check to allow for
> excess vectors. In this case, the extras just won't be used.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> Change-ID: I23e1e2955c64739c86612db88a25583e6a7e0b17
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
Tested-by: Jim Young <james.m.young at intel.com>



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